“Dracula” is the nickname of the largest and heaviest Pterosaurian species in the world known until to date. Parts of the skeleton of such a giant animal were excavated in the Romanian region of Transylvania. The reconstructed skeleton, which (...) read more
Today, Dutch Wildlands Adventure Zoo has announced that its new “Tweestryd” family coaster (a Family Duel Racer model from Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, c.f. EAP news from February 6th, 2018) will be officially inaugurated next week on March 29th, in (...) read more
Germany’s LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Oberhausen has unveiled its new “LEGO City Builder” interactive play zone this week, in which young guests and their parents can put themselves in the shoes of an architect to create fancy buildings out of (...) read more
As announced earlier this week, Global City Holdings group and Hotel Professionals Management Group have signed a contract for the development of a four-star hotel that will be built as part of the Park of Poland leisure complex, currently under (...) read more
The world’s first LEGOLAND celebrates its 50th anniversary – on this occasion, the park, which is located in the Danish town of Billund, will kick off the upcoming season with a special event this coming Saturday, including the official opening of (...) read more
Zoo Berlin has started the reconstruction of its existing predator house in order to fulfill the requirements of modern animal zoo keeping and to create a modern edutainment offer for visitors. Today, the enclosures of the wildcats are still shaped (...) read more
This coming March 24th, Germany’s Tripsdrill family park, which is located north of Stuttgart, will welcome visitors to the new season of its belonging leisure park, in which guests will be able to discover the completed new theme area of “The (...) read more
During an official opening ceremony and in presence of Lower Saxony’s Economics Minister Dr. Bernd Althusmann, Ferienzentrum Schloss Dankern has just opened its new “Burg Arkan” (Engl. “Arcan Castle”) theme area today featuring a tube coaster as its (...) read more
In the past fiscal year 2017, Dutch Efteling amusement park has welcomed a total of 5.18 million visitors (2016: 4.76 million guests), registering a new attendance record. This is also the result of the success of the new “Symbolica” dark ride (...) read more
Yesterday, The Walt Disney Company officially announced the restructuring of its related business units into four newly-created segments: (1) “Direct-to-Consumer & International”, (2) “Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products”, (3) “Media Networks” (...) read more
Tema Design by MK Illumination was created to cater to the needs of the attractions industry as a joint venture founded by Danish MK Illumination ApS and The Philippines’ TEMA Design Inc. companies. In the wake of its current company growth, Tema (...) read more
At the Westfield London shopping mall located in London’s Shepherd Bush city district, customers have been able to enjoy the “Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire” hyper reality experience since the end of 2017. Thanks to its success, the VR attraction, (...) read more
Just in time for the Chinese New Year celebrations in February (2018 is the “Year of the Dog“), the brand-new Atlantis Sanya Resort on Hainan Island in the South China Sea (cp. EAP news f. 14 Nov 2013) was opened a few weeks ago, welcoming its first (...) read more
The sixth and the largest vacation park of Center Parcs Europe in Germany up to date, Center Parcs Park Allgäu, will officially open for guests on October 1st this year (read also our comprehensive article in EAP, 1/18). With a total of 1,000 (...) read more
Today, Silver Dollar City theme park located in Branson/Missouri sees the opening of “Time Traveler”, the world’s first installation of a so-called Xtreme Spinning Coaster supplied by German manufacturer Mack Rides (cf. EAP news from August 17th, (...) read more
British Holovis company, a developer and provider of high-tech simulators and attractions (read also our cover story in EAP, 1/14), has announced a multi-million minority investment in the company by Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed corporation Road (...) read more
Starting today, guests to Therme Erding can finally enjoy the new VR experience in the German waterpark’s “GALAXY” slide complex (cf. our report in EAP, 5/17). On the existing “Space Glider” tube slide, bathing guests aged nine years and older can (...) read more
During this year’s Internationale Tourismusbörse (Engl.: “International Tourism Trade Fair”) in Berlin last week, Europa-Park Managing Partner Thomas Mack revealed a detailed model of the planned new “Krønasår” theme hotel, which will complement the (...) read more
South Korea’s Jeju Island will be home to the large-scale Jeju Shinhwa World leisure resort complex, including Lionsgate Movie World as the world’s first outdoor theme park exclusively themed on popular Lionsgate blockbuster movies (cf. EAP news (...) read more
The French city of Chartres (Centre-Val de Loire region), located around 90 kilometers south-west of Paris, is well known for its impressing cathedral. Every year, more than one million visitors come to the Gothic church. Also the “European Meeting (...) read more
